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SubjectRE: [PATCH] netvsc: fix dereference before null check errors
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin King [mailto:colin.king@canonical.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2017 10:27 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>; Haiyang Zhang
> <haiyangz@microsoft.com>; Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>;
> devel@linuxdriverproject.org; netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [PATCH] netvsc: fix dereference before null check errors
>
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>
> ndev is being checked to see if it is a null pointer however before
> the null check ndev is being dereferenced; hence there is a potential
> null pointer dereference bug that needs fixing. Fix this by only
> dereferencing ndev after the null check.
>
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1420760, CID#140761 ("Dereference
> before null check")
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>

Thank you!
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